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So the final decision is that the Mother Tongue (MT) weightage will be maintained, and that they'll be coming up with new teaching approaches and whatnot.
Good job. (:

(you can choose to ignore whatever I've typed below. The topic triggered an urge to type cos it just made me kindda miss primary & secondary school life, which was much simpler. Sighs)

I like that move because I don't see why they should reduce the weightage of MT to help those who're not that strong in MT, at the expense of those who're good at it!
If the weightage was to be reduced, doesn't it mean that the English language weightage would have to be reduced also because there are also people who have a weaker command in English compared to their MT?
English being the primary language doesn't give any rights for us to neglect MT, and make it appear less important than English.

Chinese wasn't much of a problem for me during Primary School days and I even managed to get into the best stream and took Higher Chinese, but I struggled so hard with it during Secondary School.
Believe me or not, I had failing grades in my report book for Chinese (during sec 3) and ended up being posted to the Chinese Band 4 Class - out of 5 bands, the worst being Band 5.

I couldn't read one proper passage without skipping over words, nor can I understand the passage I read, which resulted in my horrible grades for comprehension.
But writing Chinese essays wasn't much of a problem, because we're allowed to use the dictionary to check for words which we didn't know how to write.
Besides, I don't have an excuse to write crappy essays because my parents are mandarin-speaking. XD

Although I have yet to master Chinese totally but at least, I can write simple notes and hold a decent conversation with someone who speaks only Chinese, albeit a bit slow & in a mix of English, hand-gestures, and Chinese. (but well, they do understand me still)

We don't fully comprehend the need for Chinese (or other MT languages), but in a country like Singapore, can you imagine if we speak only English and nothing else? Think about it.

Look at the hospitals, if everyone's english speaking and a non-english speaking patient comes, are they gonna do hand-gestures and try to make the patient understand you? Getting a translator to do the translation adds on the the need of more manpower (can you imagine how many translators will be needed!). Simple neighborhood places like coffeeshops, do they also need translators to be sitting next to the shop owners just in case any non-english speaking customers come?

As much as I hated studying Chinese, knowing English only is just not enough.
Bilingualism FTW. :D
(even with bilingualism, we still struggle with the different dialects. & I'm even more guilty of that. I'm not even able to communicate with my grandma cos she can only understand hokkien)

说了那么多，我有点想念那些华文课。。。
想念那些有格子的习字和作文簿，
想念那种在格子里写字的感觉，
想念那种要非常专注地写字的感觉。

Remembered how the chinese handwriting of some other people were so neat & nice that I envied it so much that I always try hard to make my chinese handwriting look nice like theirs. Right now, I think my chinese writings would probably look like a primary school kid's. :\

Alright, Cheryl's alrdy hit the 2,000th post while mine is a pathetic low of less than 1,000.
This is post #981 here. :\

jiaqi:
Haha you so cute sia, reply on ur tagboard & reply on my board also. :p
yeah, definitely heard dbsk before. cos I heard their songs before i knew them also.
oh! replying you reminds me of smthg! Shall tell u abt it later... somehow. XD

Cheryl:
Lol! No lah, I'm not even keeping drafts here. (though I have quite alot of junks in my tumblr drafts)
Haven't logged into blogspot since the last time I blogged here. :p

HUIXIAN:
Lol, why not tumblr? :(

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Lol, everyone's still stuck to this blog. Actually, to tell you the truth, I'm loving tumblr more than ever before now. (especially since I've managed to figure out A LITTLE on how to make the themes)

For those who're not using tumblr, tumblr is like twitter/fb! (:
you can follow people, reblog entries (retweet), 'like' entries (facebook 'like' button), etc etc.

Just go sign up for one account & try it out!
It doesn't even take a minute to sign up for an account!

PLUS, tumblr is not as screwed as blogspot.
Super awesome for sharing stuff too. Hahaha. XD

OKAY! ENOUGH PROMOTION. I don't get paid for saying all that.

Quick update:
- I've got a quiz tmr & I shld get back to mugging after this.
- School has started weeks ago, without my usual gang. :(
- I finally got myself a pair of new shoes & backpack!
- my mp3 gave me a terrible scare on monday but it's now back to normal.

Okay, back to the books! Bye!

Okay, can someone tell me which blog of mine do you still read?
Tumblr, Wordpress, or Blogspot? (Best = All 3! haha)
Or... Are you not reading anymore? Hahaha, I'll be sad if that happens.
Lol, just kidding. (:

I realise I do this kind of crazy stuff during holidays (twitter & blogs). Hahah, too free uh? Nah, just wanna find out which blog is the best! :D

I'm loving tumblr right now! Heh heh. I'm gonna go play around with the codes someday and do my own tumblr skin! (such wrong timing! cos school's starting alr!)



SAY HELLO TO SCHOOL LIFE ONCE AGAIN! :):)

Long train rides with my mp3... They're coming back!

AGAIN, PEOPLE, LET ME KNOW WHICH OF MY BLOG YOU'RE READING! :D
& btw, in case you don't know, you can comment on tumblr also!

Oooh, I saw alot of unposted entries in here! Haha, shall post them now. :p

FOR: HUIXIAN

Haha, in the end I didnt eye anything from the lj link you gave.
Well, I did but that whole damn website that I was eyeing was in korean (Gmarket). HOW TO ORDER SIA! hahaha so I gave up and went to the singapore gmarket to check out instead. :p

I didnt really have time to browse through.. But still, I managed to do a wishlist.

HOW TO VIEW MY WISHLIST:
1. Just go to http://www.gmarket.com.sg/ & log into my account.
(not gonna post my account here, so SMS me when you read this)

2. After you log in, you can check it under the wishlist tab.
In case you can't find the wishlist link you can try using this link: http://www.gmarket.com.sg/challenge/neo_search/search_myshopping.asp
(but only after you've logged in)

3. I coded my wishlist with asterisks (*) right infront of their item code in the memo part.
More stars simply just means that I'm eyeing those stuff more badly compared to those with lower no. of stars. Hahaha! xD

4. You should click on the link (can click on the pic also) & check out the item with the code I gave too.
Hahaha, then you'll know what kind of stuff I'm looking for. (:
Tees - big/ oversized tees/ hooded tops.
Looking for caps, but cldnt find much.
if you're choosing anything else, make sure it's not too small ok! Haha. I measured the width (chest measurement) of the most uncomfortable shirt that I have in my wardrobe, & it's about 36cm. (So have to be bigger than this)

5. Okay! Now that you've viewed all my items, you're ready to hunt if you're free. :p
If not... then just choose from what I've given lah. Lol.

P.S: I didnt look at the price leh. See also no use, cos I don't know what's your budget anyway. Okay, happy hunting! I'm off to sleep! Bye! :D & THANKS IN ADVANCE.

Haha i ROFL-ed when i saw all your tags. (Imagining: all of you in a line doing *hands up in the air and wave*! haha, comical)

Okay, now i know u've not vanished. Good! :) :)

Btw, i'm gonna give my tumblr link instead cos it has the links to ALL of my blog. :D

maniacalove.tumblr.com (:

P.S. I'm kindda addicted to tumblr. Oops. (cos it's simple and fast) at the moment, the only bad thing is that IE users will have problems with my tumblr. But I think most of you are using FF right? (:
& yeah, i'll reply to some of ur tags later. :p

Hello Blogspot! How's life without me here?
I've hopped onto wordpress & I've been using it for quite some time, but no one knows about my wordpress link yet. I still can't bear to move my ass there cos I can't part with Blogspot's freedom on their blogskin (which is impt for me). But wordpress' organisation of posts is so much neater. Ugh, what shld I do?

WHO WANTS TO KNOW MY NEW LINK,
PUT YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR AND WAVE!
Haha, I think this blog is like a ghost town right now.
Only hx & huili will check regularly (like maybe at least once in a week or two).
Cheryl will check from her dashboard & come only if I'm not fan-girling.
Jenn & maybe a few others will only drop by once in a rainbow moon.
And all other ppl who used to come have long decided not to come anymore, right?
Sighs.

For now, I'm still not moving there for good. Wordpress skin is just.... :(
I wanna do my own skin. Anyone has ideas on how to work on a new skin for wordpress? I'm still trying to fiddle around with it but I can't even seem to edit their skins, but only to use their skin.
Oh, another thing I love about wordpress is the password protected post function. That's all. :D

TAG AND LET ME KNOW THAT YOU'RE ALIVE THEN I MIGHT POST MY NEW LINK NEXT. (:

Pssst! Blogspot, I'm not kicking you aside alright!
I'm too attached to you to do that! Haha!

& YAY! G.D's not gonna get charged with anything! He's fined, and that's it. :D
Okay, tag! people, tag! bye!

se⋅cret
-noun
8) something that is or is kept secret, hidden, or concealed.


So secrets shall remain hidden. (:
for now.

Wheeee! 10mins of my beloved JJ on tv just now! :D
short, but enough to make me high. Hahahaha!
Well, i dun get to listen and see him on tv as often as other artistes, of cos i get high. =p

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEE~
happy CNY to all!

ahh.. dope.